Maryland will have to deal with them.
Via WaPo:
As snow began to fall Friday, one of the urgent preparations that District officials made was to send city workers out of the nation’s capital in vans, armed with bags of groceries and store gift cards.
Their mission: Find the hundreds of homeless families that the city has placed in roadside motels in Maryland.
D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser’s effort to shelter more homeless families this winter has turned out to have dire consequences: The city has more than 1,000 families in its care but has run out of shelter space and maxed out the number of second-rate motel rooms in the city where it can place homeless families, according to documents and interviews.
With nowhere to turn and more families seeking help each day, Bowser’s administration this month began gobbling up vacant rooms across the border in Maryland. It is not the first time that the D.C. government has been forced to relocate families, but the numbers sent outside the District limits were close to a record, city officials said. There were 211 families, including almost 700 parents and children, in Maryland motels on the eve of the storm and could be inaccessible for days.
Many of the families, often young single mothers with multiple children, will be on their own to ride out the storm, city officials acknowledged, most with no way to reach grocery stores.